The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto : soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity
Bibliographic Information
- Title
- "The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto : soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity"
- Statement of Responsibility
- abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luís Sousa Rebelo ; and furnished with illustrations
- Publisher
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- Carcanet Press
- Publication Year
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- 1992
- Book size
- 25 cm
- Other Title
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- The peregrination
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Translated from the Portuguese
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1130000795073994752
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- NII Book ID
- BA47694993
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- ISBN
- 0856359696
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- LCCN
- 95202760
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- Web Site
- https://lccn.loc.gov/95202760
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Country Code
- uk
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- Title Language Code
- en
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- Place of Publication
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- Manchester
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Books